Posted on 05/03/2007 10:23:46 PM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
DRUDGE REPORT
The Reagan Derby
Well, with 47,617 individual Votes recorded as of 12:55AM EST on 5/4/07, The Drudge Report has provided perhaps the most sweeping and comprehensive initial survey of viewer reaction to the first GOP Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The Results thus far:
With an optimistic, confident demeaner and a polished presentation, Mitt Romney decidedly overshadowed the erstwhile Front-Runner, Rudy Giuliani. Rudy's primary strength thus far has been his vast name recognition and the sheer momentum of his supposed "inevitability" -- and yet, in terms of viewer reaction, for him to be trailing (by double digits) a former Governor not widely known outside of Massachusetts until this election season demonstrates clear vulnerability on Giuliani's part.
However, the greatest source of comfort to Constitutionalist Conservatives has to be the tremendous upswell of support being registered by the former Leader of Ronald Reagan's Electoral Delegation from Texas, United States Congressman Ron Paul -- and that DESPITE receiving comparatively little "face time" from the debate organizers. With viewer reaction to the first GOP Primary Debate already placing Congressman Ron Paul solidly in third place, nine points ahead of his nearest rival and within five points of Giuliani himself, a tremendous opportunity exists for Ron Paul to establish widespread national Name Recognition and garner increasing support for his broadly-appreciated message of Individual Liberty and strictly-limited Government Power.
With the second GOP Primary Debate rapidly approaching, Conservatives can take heart in knowing that the Message of Reagan Republicanism still resonates when presented confidently and forthrightly --and that there's at least one GOP Candidate on the stage who has stood solidly for Reagan Republicanism for thirty years: RON PAUL.
Shouldn’t a candidate’s current rhetoric bear at least a passing resemblence to their record?
Mitt Romney does very well in any sort of public speaking environment.
I've already decided on my candidate -- Ron Paul; I just can't bring myself to be totally convinced of Romney's quite recent (and quite conveniently-timed) flip-flop over to the Pro-Life cause. I, personally, just don't completely buy it.
But he can keep knocking Giuliani silly, I'm all for it!! More power to him, in that.
Ron Paul defended his seat against the most highly “trial lawyer-funded” liberal campaign ever waged in this country.
John Edwards could only hope for the trial-lawyer support Ron Paul’s opposition got.
231 years of independence, and this bunch of bottom-scrapings is the best we can do. Sad, isn’t it?
That is simply fantasy.
If he gets more than 1% in a real poll he is doing good.
Don’t get me wrong. I prefer Paul to any democrat I can think of. He and I are in agreement about many things. His lack of understanding regarding the need to crush islamo fascists where they live though makes him a non starter to me.
Hmmm... I take it you like Ron Paul.
Gotta like that one!
Right you are. This was an important win for him. Coupled with his appearance on Leno last night, we should see a significant improvement in the polls.
It goes way beyond sad, it is a travesty!
The poll is an out come also of another site I saw telling them to go over to FR and vote for, name, and name.
I don't understand this. Is he unwilling to give the Iraqis a chance to work these problems out, and siding with Reid and Murtha who want to run away? Doesn't he think anything can be salvaged? Granted, this is the first and the most I've heard about him, but I really don't get his position on this.
Wishful thinking on the part of these voters; Rudy got whooped tonight.
Figgers.
With Federal Deficits in the half-Trillion dollar range, I would ask you one question:
Now, given those assumptions, choose ONE of the following courses of action:
Assuming that you had to CHOOSE ONE, which course of action do YOU think is more likely to prevent a couple of jihadists with AK-47s from slipping into a US day-care center or shopping mall and indulging in their own little Virginia Tech redux?
Which One?
Food for thought. Life is full of trade-offs.
What is better, a less than perfect conservative Republican as president or a president running on a Liberal platform like, Guiliani, Hillary or Obama?
You need to move on over to DU where you can enjoy your fellow anti war idiots.
None of the above. A liberal is a liberal.
This is a poll of 50,000 viewer reactions to the GOP Debate.
Many of these people may have only seen Ron Paul for the first time tonight.
And they like what they see.
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